soon a longer paternity leave?

He weighed just 1.2 kilograms at birth. Clément was born in April 2009, two months ahead. He was immediately hospitalized in neonatal resuscitation. His father, Vincent, says that after the fifteen days of paternity leave allowed, he had to resume his commercial work. A very difficult moment because he would have liked to stay at the bedside of his son. He admits to having shortened his working days and taken risks on the road to join his baby and his wife in the hospital. After a few months, he is fired by his employer.

This testimony is far from an exception. Every year in France, 60,000 children are born prematurely. As for full-term infants, fathers are entitled to 3 days of employer-sponsored paternity leave, to which can be added 11 days of leave for a single birth and 18 days of leave for a multiple birth, taken into account. charge by the Health Insurance.

Unsuitable leave for premature births, as recently pointed out by a report of the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (Igas). At the end of October, the National Assembly voted an additional paternity leave during the period of hospitalization of the child. But the duration of this leave remains to be determined and this worries badociations. Charlotte Bouvard, founder of SOS Préma fears that this new leave does not cover the entire duration of hospitalization.